Experience

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  Spectrum Ecology & Spatial

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Senior zoologist

    • May 2024 - Present
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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  BirdLife Australia

  • Australia

  • Project Coordinator

    • Aug 2021 - May 2024
    • Australia

    Research on breeding attempts and success of threatened Black Cockatoo species (primarily Carnaby’s Cockatoo) across their range. All aspects of research project management including:- Design of the survey framework and data management through ArcGIS. - Managing fieldwork across the state for four months of the year during the breeding season.- Managing volunteers, all survey efforts, and associated data across all regions. - Collaborating with the five major natural resource management (NRM) organizations in Western Australia to produce region-specific deliverables and conservation outcomes for Black Cockatoos. - Annual reporting on the project’s outcomes for all stakeholders (federal government and NRM groups), with quarterly updates for our volunteer network. Production of the annual Carnaby’s Cockatoo Breeding Report.- Data packaging and sharing with all stakeholders.

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  Ecoscape (Australia) Pty Ltd

  • Australia

  • Zoologist

    • Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
    • Australia

    - Conducting detailed, basic and fauna-specific fauna surveys. Conducting surveys on an individual basis in remote areas.- In-house Black Cockatoo expert and data analyst. - R&D (environmental): setting up data protocols and scripts to facilitate data exports and outputs consistent with reporting, setting up survey protocols and apps to be used in the field. - Environmental report writing for clients such as Main Roads Western Australia, Covalent Lithium, Roy Hill, and others.

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  Murdoch University

  • Australia
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • PHD Researcher

    • May 2015 - Jun 2020

    Research into the movement ecology of the three black cockatoo species endemic to Western Australia, studying the distribution and movement behaviour of black cockatoos through the use of rehabilitated birds re-released into wild flocks equipped with satellite tags.- Project management of a multi-year, multi-site research project.- Programmed Argos PTT satellite tags and UvA-BiTs tags (GPS) to be attached to rehabilitated birds. - Developed fieldwork protocols in line with satellite communication periods for several birds per release. - Data collection, database management (SQLite), and data analysis through Rstudio. - Dissemination of project outputs in doctoral thesis, academic papers, quarterly updates to stakeholders, monthly newsletters, and bi-annual project presentations.

  • Research Assistant

    • 2017 - 2017

    - Assisting PhD researchers with spatial data collection in the field and programming tags.- Collecting accelerometry data for movement analysis research through overall dynamic body acceleration (ODBA).

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  Nature help center

  • Opglabbeek, Belgium

  • Volunteer Staff

    • 2013 - 2015
    • Opglabbeek, Belgium

    Wildlife Caretaker- Capturing and retrieval of wildlife in distress to the center

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  Center for Research and Conservation (CRC)

  • KMDA, Antwerp, Belgium

  • Student Volunteer

    • 2010 - 2013
    • KMDA, Antwerp, Belgium

    Satellite Tracking of European White Storks, Data manipulation and processing using a Geographic Information System (GIS), sampling for DNA analysis and bird ringing, speaker at CRC symposium.- Collecting DNA samples of local populations of white storks in rural Macedonia.- Analysing and processing 10 years of satellite tracking data from European White Storks.- Remote fieldwork on n individual basis.

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  Atlantic Whale Foundation

  • Tenerife

  • Volunteer Staff

    • 2008 - 2008
    • Tenerife

    Research assistant, Guide- Outreach on whale watching boats, photo fin identification and data collection.- Analysed volunteer observation database (voluntary).